revisiting WPMUDev plugins not autoupdating with shield

  • Michael

    (@lilmike)


    8 years ago

    Hi,
    A while ago I wrote about WPMUDev plugins not updating automatically with shield’s autoupdate feature, and we had decided it was on their end. I’m still thinking it is on their end, but would like to try and figure out how they could fix that so they do:
    One thing I noticed recently is that wp-cli will update them just fine. What would be different between wp-cli updating plugins versus WordPress autoupdate (activated through shield?)
    Thanks,
    -Michael.

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  • Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    wp-cli is pretty well catered for… likely they’ve built in their automation code to ensure it’s compatible.

    Making automatic updates compatible is straight forward in-principle. Most vendors wrap up their premium update code into hooks that only get fired when an “administrator” is logged-in and running the upgrade.

    But the WordPress automatic update gets run on the WordPress cron which does not run as admin, so the update code has to be hooked correctly to account for this.

    This my best educated guess, short of digging through their code – but that’s their job ??

    Hope it helps

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